ParadoxLost

Well yeah. This is an echo chamber.

Social security is an earned benefit and that benefit is capped at the same level the taxable salary is capped. But look at federal tax bracket, it jumps up by 8% at roughly the same level the salary is capped. People earning above the cap are still paying in, they just stop getting a benefit for it. And given the level of raiding of social security by the government, they are reducing the borrowing from social security. You can feel that higher income earners should be paying more than they already are but the idea that everyone isn't paying based on what they are earning is a semantics game. They just rerouted the same dollars.

The thing is that loan forgiveness doesn't fix the problem. It perpetuates the problem. Younger generations were screwed over by a series of legislation that made loans easier to get and not bankruptable. The further from that legislation you were, the worse the deal you got because schools are basically corporations now. They are going to suck every dollar they can manage out of a student and student loans became an infinite money supply. And that's my issue with student loan forgiveness. The government prints more money to do it. Inflation goes up in general. School cost goes up by even more by setting the precedent of a bail out. Not to mention that student loans are a significant portion of the positive column on the government balance sheet. There needs to be reform first for future students. And sucks that recent students are the ones left holding the bag on that. But can't give a drunk a drink. If they can figure out how to reform the system (without unintentionally making it worse) then I'm fine with some kind of means tested student loan forgiveness later on. I'm also all for testing whether there can be class action suits of some kind against schools with massive endowments that offered programs to kids that were never going to have any ROI. The whole idea of not bankruptable student loans was that you could take back someone's house but not their education. And there are some degrees that have no real market value and the schools knew it. And if they didn't make that abundantly clear to the student, that feels like fraud to me. Same deal with Medicare and Social security. Social security is going to go bankrupt around the time I'm set to retire. Frankly, I think they are going to need to do some kind of means testing on it. Does it suck that this would mean that an earned benefit is not paid out, yes. But frankly, I'd rather forgo getting it than have the younger, still working generations have to shoulder supporting it with a smaller base than I had to do. Also, the money printing has led to essentially two economies. If you make enough save and invest, then things are all rosy for you because the money flowing to your investments is out pacing inflation and devaluation of your dollars. If you are just getting by, then the economy is a disaster. And generally speaking, I think Harris was courting the former, and Trump the latter. This is not the classical definition of who the parties are supporting. It flipped to a degree. And I'm not sure that the Democratic party saw it happening because they were focused on racial and gender groups as a proxy for class instead of class itself. They also had a no win as the incumbent. They had to say the economy was good or bad. Both were true depending on who you were. Neither were good for Harris because they had to admit they did a bad job or abandon their base. They really should have just taken their medicine and admitted to mistakes, blamed unintended consequence of covid fiscal response, and that they understood what happened and wouldn't repeat. Then they could have pointed out that they weren't alone in the money printing. But you can't call Trump out on that without admitting your own part.

The amount of time I might waste if someone says "hey this thing (that never existed) what was that". Drake's Devil dog. That's the only thing I got. Nothing angel related. I did learn Hostess just released a twinkie shoved inside of a Ding Dong. Which, on typing it out, sounds wrong. And yes, Hostess isn't Hostess anymore although I don't think I've bought anything since they went bankrupt but don't really remember them being much better before that.

There is a "contact us" link on the site. Suggest starting by emailing them to ask if they'll sell you one or give you a name of a few dealers you can check to see if they have an online store. Probably easier than calling.

Sorry to hear that news was banned that sucks. Although I do wish that the writers or AI that write news articles like they are in a post-modern lit course would stop. I have yet to come across anything as entertaining as that Rolling Stone article about X files I cut up and randomly reassembled in college. I still have no idea what that was all about. But I do not like badly written, meandering news articles that don't go anywhere. I guess they are just for the clicks and they don't really expect anyone to read them.

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I was in my 30s when I called my parents and asked them how to eat a peach. Peel the skin or eat the skin. They didn't know either. This was apparently the first peach from an orchard, and not a can, my family ever encountered. I grew up in the Peach State.

I have to say that as someone that eventually quit the show because of pacing and constant re-focusing to a bunch of C stories for episodes at a time to delay pay off on any kind of story I cared about to the point that I no longer cared.... I am so happy, that Michonne and Rick aren't going to spend the entirety of the series separated with near miss reunions.

I think that was just a nod to the comics. I seem to recall living with a vague dread of Rick's hand going bye bye during the series. I quit the original run of the show due to its pacing and I find that I'm leery of the show for that reason. I liked the episode well enough, I guess. But I'm now expecting the next episode is going to be Michonne's journey. Which is fine. But I don't know if I can put up with Rick and Michonne immediately going their separate ways for episode 3. And this episode makes it feel like they will. It feels like that is why they did the whole thing with Rick nearly committing suicide then burning his letters to Michonne, etc.

That is probably true on their reasoning but it was also totally not necessary, because they already have the metacrisis Doctor that had a happy ending with Rose that they could bring back from an alternate reality if they need a Tennant ratings bump. Which is frankly the reason I thought they did that too. And as much as I liked Rose and Ten I thought that was a bad idea too. I think they also set up a problem with the audience expecting guest appearances that will undermine the new Doctor. Doctor Who re-generates. Doctor Who has to go on without his companions. That is the tragedy of the Doctor. This show is not Doctor Who anymore. It has devolved into leaning into worse impulses of bad fan fiction. These episodes were so, so stupid.

I've a couple different sound quality versions of the scene. One of them sounded like Carol said "don't come back". The conversation was awkward and stilted enough that I think it was spun for hype about returning characters but was really a warning from Carol to Daryl that something was wrong (enemies invaded) Alexandria and she couldn't exactly speak freely but decided to get him a warning that he shouldn't come back. Carol knows he'll come back but that would tell him something is up. Daryl definitely heard it as someone came back.

California got simultaneously hit by a hurricane and an earthquake?

Those set pictures were dreadful. Snow White is the one animated movie that I think its a very bad idea for Disney to veer too far away from in the live version of the movie. This primarily because so many non-Disney live movies Snow White movies have already been made. I've already seen versions where almost anything Disney can do differently has already been done. Because everyone else can go off the original tale but the Disney animated version is not in public domain. I would probably feel different if they were trying to do anything truly innovative which I highly doubt. Or if they were in a different place in their ability to make a watchable movie.

Geese migrating North by road instead of sky unbothered by car horns and barring your way home leading to a weird IRL game of frogger....but with geese.